ok so i am not, nor have i ever been, a member of any punk scene so take this with a grain of salt
but it amazes me when people try to no-true-scotsman punk politics. like, sure there are a lot of leftists and progressives that are in and come from punk. but it was always a reactionary musical and fashion movement without any clear politics besides “fuck shit up.” thats going to draw in people from a myriad of beliefs and theyre not going to be (and have never been) perfectly in line with your leftist values. hell, half the ramones were conservative. johnny rotten went maga to nobody’s surprise. jello biafra had to specify “nazi punks fuck off” because some of the punk movement were and are literal nazis. and then you even have riot grrl, which is on the whole pretty left leaning. except of course for the MASSIVE transmisogyny in the movement.
idk it just feels like yall wanna stick “punk” on things you like and strip it off things you dont whether or not they do actually fit the conventions of the musical genre